I’m sold on trying out Scala, after seeing James Strachan state:
I’m very impressed with it! I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I’d probably have never created Groovy.
Strachan created the very cool Groovy and is one of the few big Java guys (along with Jerome Louvel) who has some good perspective on the language and has been doing cool stuff.
I even have a couple of small projects I’m fiddling with where I can try it out. For client work I will still be using Python and straight up Java for the time being.